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Audioware For Linux

guitarix ~ Linux Virtual Guitar Amplifier

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guitarix is a virtual guitar amplifier for Linux running on Jack Audio Connection Kit. It is free as in speech and free as in beer. The available source code allows you to build it on other UNIX-like systems too, namely BSD and MacOSX.

guitarix takes the signal from your guitar as any real amp would do: as a mono-signal from your sound card. The input is processed by a main amp and a rack-section. Both can be routed separately and deliver a processed stereo-signal via Jack. You may fill the rack with effects from more than 25 built-in modules from a simple noise gate to brain-slashing modulation f/x stuff like flanger, phaser or auto-wah.

Guitarix_0.35.0
guitarix 0.35.0

guitarix.org
sourceforge.net/projects/guitarix

Hydrogen ~ Advanced Drum Machine

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Hydrogen is an advanced cross-platform drum machine. Its main goal is to provide professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Hydrogen Interface

www.hydrogen-music.org
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_(software)

ZynAddSubFX ~ Multi-platform Synthesizer

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ZynAddSubFX is a fully featured open source software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments …

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zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net
zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/download
VST version
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZynAddSubFX

Qtractor ~ Audio / MIDI Multi-track Sequencer

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Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.

qtractor-screenshot16

qtractor.sourceforge.io
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtractor

MiniLyrics ~ Display Music Lyrics Free

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  • Lyrics plugin software for iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp, etc. You needn’t change your way of enjoying music.
  • Display scrolling lyrics, you can follow along with the artist and catch every word.
  • Automatically search and download lyrics.
  • Huge lyrics database, and it is expanding every day.
  • Download and save lyrics in your song files, you can view these lyrics on your iPod or iPhone.
  • Amazing translucency skins.
  • Cross-platform, support Windows, Mac and Android.
minilyrics interface

www.crintsoft.com/MiniLyrics

AudioCuesheetEditor ~ Create Cuesheets Easily

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Annoyed by the difficulty of writing your audio cuesheets via a text editor? Here comes the solution! AudioCuesheetEditor helps you when editing your audio cue sheet file.

With AudioCuesheetEditor you can import text files, edit the imported data and afterwards export to a working audio cue sheet. There are also other export possibilities like csv or xml. Feel free to try it.  😉

audiocuesheeteditor

sourceforge.net/projects/audiocuesheet

Aqualung ~ Advanced Gapless Audio Player

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Aqualung is an advanced music player originally targeted at the GNU/Linux operating system, today also running on FreeBSD and OpenBSD, with native ports to Mac OSX and even Microsoft Windows. It plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as sound files in just about any audio format and has the feature of inserting no gaps between adjacent tracks.

Aqualung
Default Skin

Website
Download
GitHub
SourceForge
Wikipedia

JACK ~ Audio Connection Kit

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Have you ever wanted to take the audio output of one piece of software and send it to another? How about taking the output of that same program and send it to two others, then record the result in the first program? Or maybe you’re a programmer who writes real-time audio and music applications and who is looking for a cross-platform API that enables not only device sharing but also inter-application audio routing, and is incredibly easy to learn and use? If so, JACK may be what you’ve been looking for.

Audio Connection Kit

jackaudio.org
jackaudio.org/downloads
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit

JACK Rack is an effects “rack” for the JACK low latency audio API. The rack can be filled with LADSPA effects plugins and can be controlled using the ALSA sequencer. It’s phat; it turns your computer into an effects box.

jack-rack

jack-rack.sourceforge.net

Gnome Extension:

extensions.gnome.org/extension/1135/jackvolume

Resources:

github.com/dagargo/jack-client-template
github.com/dagargo/overwitch (JACK client for Overbridge devices)

DFasma ~ Compare Audio Files In Time & Frequency

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DFasma is free open-source software which is used to compare audio files in time and frequency. The comparison is first visual, using waveforms and spectra. It is also possible to listen to time-frequency segments in order to allow perceptual comparison. It is basically dedicated to analysis. Even though there are basic functionalities to align the signals in time and amplitude, this software does not aim to be an audio editor.

Features:

  • Can load about 25 different audio formats (thanks to libsndfile or libsox).
  • Shows spectrogram, amplitude, phase spectra and group delay.
  • Can play a filtered sound given a selected frequency band.
  • Rectification of the spectrogram tilt (cepstral lifting).
  • Can create and edit segmentation files.
  • Can create and edit fundamental frequency (F0) files (thanks to REAPER).
  • Runs under Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

dfasman - ss1.4_2comparison

gillesdegottex.github.io/dfasma

Clementine ~ Modern Player & Library Organizer

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Clementine is a multi-platform music player. It’s inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

  • Search and play your local music library.
  • Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Groovesharks, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm (radiotunes), Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
  • Search and play songs you’ve uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
  • Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
  • Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
  • CUE sheet support.
  • Play audio CDs.
  • Visualizations from projectM.
  • Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
  • Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
  • Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organize your music.
  • Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
  • Discover and download podcasts.
  • Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
  • Cross-platform – works on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
  • Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OSX (Growl).
  • Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
  • Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
  • Queue manager.
Clementine Version 1.2-1
Playlist tab, while listening to songs from multiples Internet services

www.clementine-player.org
www.clementine-player.org/downloads
github.com/clementine-player/Clementine
flathub.org/apps/org.clementine_player.Clementine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(software)
Clementine Music Player Tutorial

F-Droid

An Android remote control for Clementine

f-droid.org/packages/de.qspool.clementineremote

DCue ~ Discogs Cue Sheet Generator

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DCue is an open source command line tool for creating audio cue sheet files using the massive release database at Discogs. DCue is available for both Windows and Linux and is written in C++ with no external library dependencies. It has a very simple command line syntax and creates human-readable and universally compatible cue sheets (.cue files). It also supports the automatic creation of multiple cue sheets for multi-disc albums in an intuitive way.

dcue.sourceforge.net
sourceforge.net/projects/dcue/files/

LMMS ~ Let’s Make Music

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Produce music with your computer by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more. Playback instruments, samples and plugins with a typing or MIDI keyboard in a user-friendly and modern interface. Bundled with ready-to-use content from an assortment of instrument and effect plugins, presets and samples to VST and SoundFont support.

lmms-main
LMMS – Project View

lmms.io
github.com/LMMS
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS